We try to keep our children engaged and active in their class work and play. This week, we have changed a few things. The children were highly delighted and love to try new things.
We have been learning lots of new sounds in class. We are working on identifying the different letters which make each sound. Today we waited for our teacher to say a sound and then we cut the letter out and stuck it in the correct box. We worked together as a team and had a team leader.
It is important that we learn through play. The children often don’t realise that they are learning. They learn social skills, discussion skills as were as formal learning of maths and language. The children ask us for different areas to become available in class and we do our best to do this.
We were looking at the letter e today. We watched a little clip of Elmer the elephant. We then wrote the letter e all over Elmer. They were beautiful.
We were learning all about the letter “i” today. We made beautiful igloos . We also watched a clip of “Pingu” building his igloo and we looked at pictures of the George Square igloo. It sparked some great discussions.
The George Square Igloo
Everyone loves Pingu.
Chris Riddell visited the school today. He is an author and an illustrator and drew lots of pictures for us. He read us his latest book, “Once Upon A Wild Wood”.
Every week, we ask the children how they would like to learn and what they want to learn. This week, we have put in the castle for role play, the blocks and foam to build with, and the ramps for looking at friction and speed. There are always lots of choices for the children to develop their play as well as having teaching time with the class teachers.
We are always busy in 1.3. There is so much to learn as we play. We also learn to talk to each other, have manners and take turns.
We have started our Jolly Phonics Programme and have heard the stories and sung the songs about “s” and “a”. We have searched for them and written them in rice and on paper.
We started on “s today. It sound sounds like a snake. We did rainbow writing with our snakes and drew spots around them. We also wrote “s”using chalk on the playground. We listened to the “s” story and sang the song.
